Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college, you may want to take a look at the "Portrait of the Old Grad'' from a job-and-salary standpoint. Just about five out of six male graduates hold down top positions in their communities-in the professions, or as owners, managers or executives. Median earnings of the male graduates at the time of the study were $4,689 a year, more than double that for all men in the U.S. "Our college graduates earn more money almost from the first year on the job than the average man makes at the peak of his earning power...
...year sentence for $61,400 income tax evasion, plus 30 days more for failure to pay the $15,000 fine, he signed a pauper's oath and promised to give to the Government, toward payment of the fine, a percentage of any future money he may earn...
...presided over it all like an unconventional patriarch, counseling his children, praying with them, and playing his accordion for them. Instead of his clerical soutane, he wore a beret and turtleneck sweater. Unfortunately, he was never able to dodge conventional economics. With most of its citizens too young to earn enough money to support the colony, Nomadelphia accumulated a disastrous debt of 310 million lire (nearly $500,000). By last month the creditors were growing restless...
Harvard finished ninth as Bob Mello vaulted 13 feet to earn a four-way tie for first. Bob Twitchell came in fourth in the 60-yard low hurdles, Ronald Berman fifth in the 600 yard run. Brian Reynolds got a three-way tie for fifth in the high jump, and Hal Gerry fifth in the two-mile...
...first of five children of Robert Whitney Wood, an ex-Union Army captain who settled down to run a coal and ice business. When he was 16, Wood was so small (5' 4") that his father gave him $10, sent him off to earn his living and toughen up. After nearly a year with a railroad surveying gang in Texas, Wood returned to Kansas City and won a competitive examination for West Point...